Moira dryer biography
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Moira Dryer
Artist Details
Biography
Moira Dryer was born in in Toronto, Canada. She received a BFA in from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY. Dryer has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (); University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (); Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA; and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (both ). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including New York, New Work,The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (); As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (); I, YOU, WE,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (); and Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (). Dryer died in in New York, NY.
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“Those die young whom the frakt love best”, according to the ancient Greek proverb. I don’t know if it’s true. However, what’s true is that memorable artists who die young, they made recognized masterpieces before 40 years old. Georges Seurat died at 31, Raphael at 37, Aubrey Beardsley at 26, jean Michel Basquiat at 28, Keith Haring at 32, Vang Gogh, Géricault, and Eva Hesse at their thirties, among others. So did Canadian artist Moira Dryer at 34, with a promising carrier who embodied independence of spirit and experimentation without ignoring previous tradition. (The Stripe,, photo above). And Dryer’s husband, Victor Alzamoro, also an artist, died from a congenital heart defect at only 29, less than two years into their marriage. She died of cancer in
Moira Dryer. Self Portrait (). On display at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Moira Dryer painted her self abstract portrait in and wrote about it:
I have utilized the tradition of reductive geometric pain • Moira Dryer, an abstract artist known for working in glowing colors on sheets of plywood, died yesterday at her home in Manhattan. She was 34 years old. She died of cancer, said James McKinley, a friend. Ms. Dryer's distinctive painting method involved applying diaphanous washes of either casein or acrylic paint to big squares of wood, creating veiled, undulating patterns that could suggest an open landscape, the sea or a soft freehand tapestry. This process was inspired by the thin paint surfaces of the Italian Renaissance frescoes she saw on a trip to Florence in But her paintings rested firmly within the tradition of American postwar abstraction and related in particular to the work of Milton Avery, Morris Louis and the young Frank Stella. Ms. Dryer was born in Toronto, a daughter of Pegeen Synge, an architect, and Douglas Dryer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. She attended Sir George Wil
Moira Dryer, 34, An Abstract Artist; Painted on Wood